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Amazon expands Alexa Skill Blueprints to court brands and content creators

By Maria Deutscher Feb 13, 2019

Amazon.com Inc. is making it easier for companies and content creators to engage consumers via the more than 100 million devices that run Alexa. The company today released an update for Alexa Skill Blueprints,…

AI

IBM Watson Anywhere gets multicloud juice from containers

By R. Danes Feb 13, 2019

It can be tough fitting a single product in all the different-shaped slots in distributed information technology systems. Companies trying to make certain tech work as well on-premises as in several different clouds are in…

Blockchain

Legal contract blockchain platform Monax launches public beta

By Kyt Dotson Feb 13, 2019

Monax Industries, a legal digital infrastructure provider, today announced the launch of its distributed ledger blockchain service for legal contract applications into a public beta, making it generally available for production-level commercial use. The…

Big Data

Amid rising competition, time-series database startup InfluxData raises $60M round

By Maria Deutscher Feb 13, 2019

InfluxData Inc., the maker of a specialized database used at companies such as SAP SE and Tesla Inc., today revealed that it has closed a $60 million funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners.…

Big Data

Tableau Software adds Ask Data so users can query data with their natural voice

By Mike Wheatley Feb 13, 2019

Tableau Software Inc., whose mission is to make insights from big data more accessible, today took a big step further with the addition of new natural language processing capabilities. The new feature is called…

Cloud

At Think, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty pitches digital reinvention 2.0

By Mark Albertson Feb 13, 2019

IBM Corp.’s flagship technology conference Think in San Francisco attracted 30,000 people this week and, by midafternoon on Tuesday, it appeared that every single one of them was trying to enter the convention hall where Chief…

Apps

Apple reportedly irks publishers by taking 50% cut for its upcoming news service

By James Farrell Feb 12, 2019

Apple Inc. has yet to release its Apple News subscription service, but according to reports Tuesday some big publishers are not happy with the deal on the table. It has been dubbed the “Netflix for…

IoT

Google scales back its ambitions for Android Things operating system

By Mike Wheatley Feb 12, 2019

Google LLC is curtailing the scope of its Android Things operating system, saying from now on the platform will be used exclusively to power smart speakers and smart displays. When Google announced Android Things…

Security

All data lost in ‘catastrophic’ hack of email provider VFEmail

By Duncan Riley Feb 12, 2019

VFEmail, a service that pitches itself as “making email safe for the masses,” has suffered a “catastrophic” hack that destroyed all email and related data stored by the company dating back to 2011. The hack…

Cloud

Qualys snaps up cloud applications management startup Adya

By Duncan Riley Feb 12, 2019

Cybersecurity software provider Qualys Inc. has acquired the software assets of cloud applications management startup Adya Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2016, Adya provides software to help enterprises manage and secure their software-as-a-service…

the latest

Amazon expands Alexa Skill Blueprints to court brands and content creators

Legal contract blockchain platform Monax launches public beta

Amid rising competition, time-series database startup InfluxData raises $60M round

Tableau Software adds Ask Data so users can query data with their natural voice

Apple reportedly irks publishers by taking 50% cut for its upcoming news service

Google scales back its ambitions for Android Things operating system

All data lost in ‘catastrophic’ hack of email provider VFEmail

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